Word: seaport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant way into Southeast Asia, they found, as Britain's Sir Thomas Herbert wrote in 1634, that in every major seaport were the "infinitely industrious Chyneses...
...promised that the "free market in foreign exchange"-the source of all Tangier's material blessings-would go on as before. Now, it seemed, Tangier was scheduled to become, economically as well as politically, just one more Moroccan city. In the cafés of the North African seaport last week, gloomy Tangerines discussed the latest calamitous rumors...
...Prince Norodom Vakrivan, had just brought in a package newly arrived from Hong Kong. The accompanying card said that it contained a "gift for the King and queen" from a U.S. engineering company that had helped build the 134-mile Cambodian-American Friendship Highway running from Pnompenh to the seaport of Sihanoukville...
...foundations of the Imam's medieval theocracy. But they were reckoning without the Imam. Bustling back to his Red Sea domain with a shipload of wives and concubines, the Sword of Islam flashed commandingly. "I swear by Allah." he proclaimed from his palace balcony in the sun-charred seaport of Hodeida. "that I shall behead every black and every white whenever a complaint is lodged. There have been misdeeds-by hooligans and vainglorious fools and .. . . agents of the Christians. Gold has been found in the possession of some of these culprits [jeers]. Allah be praised, they...
...corner of King George I and Filonos Streets, in the heart of Athens' seaport, Piraeus, last week, one of the most important Greek sculptures yet found came to light. Workmen ripping up the pavement found a pair of bronze hands protruding from the dirt four feet below street level. Archaeologists came on the run, uncovered a bronze Apollo, almost perfectly preserved, and worthy of the legendary sculptor Antenor, who lived in the 6th century B.C. The sculpture has much the same severity and grace that mark the bronze Charioteer at Delphi. It is a relic of the greatest moment...